Scientism

Quick meaning: Scientism is a noun meaning The belief that all truth is exclusively discovered through science.

Meaning

The belief that all truth is exclusively discovered through science.

More Meanings

1. The belief that the scientific method and the assumptions and research methods of the physical sciences are applicable to all other disciplines (such as the humanities and social sciences), or that those other disciplines are not as valuable.
2. (rare) A pseudoscience.

Example Sentences

The line is straight out of eugenics, the deeply dishonest scientism that in the early 20th century convinced many people that criminality, poverty and a host of other ills were all inherited.

This claim, espoused by scientific naturalists, is called scientism, the view that science is the paradigm of truth and rationality. There are two forms of scientism: strong and weak. Strong scientism […]

'Scientism means ... that we no longer understand science as one form of possible knowledge, but rather identify knowledge with science.' Habermas's critique of scientism focuses on its relation to positivism, since positivism provides […]

Habermas's work of the middle and late 1960s is centrally concerned with the philosophical and sociological issues raised by scientism, the reduction of all knowledge to that furnished by the empirical sciences, where these are conceived as […]

Word Forms

• scientisms

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Related dictionary entries include sciencism, antipositivism, scienda, scientometry, science, metascience.

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